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I'm very sure that guy got a very wide range and he calls with practically any hand. He calls a previous all-in of 1.2k with a hand of 2c 4s and flop a straight. Guess i went a tilt and get cracked. As]

that guy probably is very loose pre flop , and tight post flopmeaning probably he can limp in with hands lik 4 T , but if the flop doesn't come 4 T K or T T A or T 3 2 and the likes of it ( at least top pair post flop ) , he probably would be folding , as you see 71% of the board on the flop , for the price of one round of betting , he isn't doing that bad.

Hmm, personally I would not play AK that way. The only advantage that AK has compared to AA and KK is that with AK, you won't get too committed. You can easily fold AK when the flop comes and it doesn't hit you. With that in mind, I seldom shove all in with AK. Even if the opponent who raise me all-in has the table image of being loose, I'm still not willing to gamble a large amount on a drawing hand pre-flop.

AK is an underdog against any pocket pair, but AK is preferred because it's much more bet-able post flop compared to pocket pairs. That's why I prefer to see the flop and try to extract more information from my opponent before pushing all-in with a drawing hand.

On the contrary, the edge in holding AK lies in the fact that you're only really beaten by 2 hands preflop. You're in the lead against other broadways that you dominate AQ/AJ/KQ/KJ. Any pair 22-QQ is basically a flip, and ideally you would want to be the one to put your opponent at a decision for all his chips pre, as long as you are relatively sure that he does not hold KK/AA.

Against a solid opponent post flop, you're going to find it hard to extract value from 22 to QQ hands as long as an A or K hits the board. Of course you can choose to play AK less aggressively preflop, but I believe in most of the microstakes online cash games/tourneys/sit n gos, playing AK aggressively pre is the way to go.

And by the way OP, you did not go on tilt. Such things happen all the time, you just happened to be on the wrong end of a coin flip. At the $0.25 level, just stick the chips in pre with AK, and you'll be amazed by how much value you can get from the clowns calling off their chips with dominated hands.

That is not really the case of AK getting "cracked"~~ 99 is a slight favourite preflop anyways. If you said you had AA and it got cracked by 99 then yes it is understandable.

Still you did nothing wrong~ you put your money into a close to coinflip situation against a loose player who could well have a worse hand than 99. Just one of those things that happens in poker~ that guy suddenly had a hand =P